Lipi, who's been actively creating works since the 90's underscoring various feminist concerns in her native Bangladesh and the world at large. She has shown widely both in South Asian and Euro-American contexts, including exhibitions such as the 54th Venice Biennale and the Colombo Art Biennale (2012) and her works are in prominent collections such as the Guggenheim. In her latest exhibition 'Vanity Fair', Lipi seeks to extend her iconic use of razor blades to articulate objects associated with domestic labour as well as the implied violence of the skewed social contract that has historically subjected women to the tedium of the household, limiting their movement and extracting their labour for the engorgement of a patriarchal setup that cleverly derails all attempts at subversive correction. Disguised as a shop complete with a trial room, the exhibition attempts to delineate some of these complex economic flows. Traversing some of these circuits from the dismal garment factories in Dhaka to the upscale boutiques in New York, the artist determinedly feels for cracks in the system that might offer possibilities for resistance. Related Events : Art Exhibitions | Women